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What does the "downloads" page mean if my game is HTML5

A topic by AwesomepantsGames created Nov 30, 2023 Views: 138 Replies: 3
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Does this mean that someone downloaded the game's source code?
I don't think this is linked to people playing the game, since the game starts as someone clicks on the page each click will be the equivalent of a gameplay, very curious what this download statistic means.

Wait, I forgot about the Itch app.
I reckon it means that someone used that to download the game? Since there's no option to download the source code on the page?

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That’s correct, someone installing a browser based game in the app counts as a “download”.

Depending on account settings, games do not start automatically.

Technically, your game is downloaded every time, someone plays it. Of course there is hopefully caching, so someone playing it twice will only download it once.

If the chart only displays itch-app activity, it is a useless chart. But I cannot answer your question what those numbers mean.

Don't you have page view chart somewhere, to get more information?

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